As a member of the Boston Library Consortium, the University of New Hampshire Library is participating in the Internet Archive’s Open Content Alliance (OCA) book digitization project by contributing public domain materials from its collection.

Since scanning began in January, the Library has contributed more than 126,454 pages to the OCA Northeast Regional Scanning Center at the Boston Public Library. This represents 711 items with an average page count of 178 per item, including the Granite Monthly magazine, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins, the Manual for the General Court (the “red books”), and selected New Hampshire local history monographs.

For a brief description of the OCA project, selection criteria, and links to books we’ve already scanned, visit the Digital Collections page on the Library Website and select Open Content Alliance from the right side menu: http://www.library.unh.edu/diglib/.

What should you do when you find something in the UNH Library Catalog you want borrow, but it’s located at UNH Manchester? Contact the UNH Library Loan Department and request it!

You may visit the Loan desk in person in Dimond Library, contact the department by phone (603-862-3125), or use our new request form.

You can also find a link to this form, along with information about other borrowing options, on the If We Don’t Have It… page found under the Get Help! tab on the Library Website.

Note: Only patrons eligible to borrow materials from the UNH Library may request items from UNH Manchester.